Website: CJE
Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2016
In this special issue, we invite authors to critically engage with the arts and design thinking as methods for promoting creativity and social innovation. We’d like contributors to consider how education can be more explicitly connected to the growth of the Creative Economy (CE), defined as “the interface between creativity, culture, economics and technology as expressed in the ability to create and circulate intellectual capital, with the potential to generate income, jobs and export earnings while. . .promoting social inclusion, cultural diversity and human development” (United Nations, 2008, p. 333). Creative industries may include: visual arts, design, film, photography, computer games, electronic/book publishing, music, dance, etc. (Howkins, 2001; Government of Ontario, 2014; Florida & Spencer, 2015). The driver of economic innovation is creativity and according to innovation rankings, Canada has demonstrated weak innovation capacity for decades (The Conference Board of Canada, 2015). Given the trajectory of the CE in the next decade, we believe it is timely to address the complex constraints within education that separate pedagogical innovation from social innovation. Society needs creative thinkers who have been educated to address socio-cultural-political issues and who are capable of engaging in complex interpersonal relationships within diverse groups of people (Hayes, Sameshima, & Watson, 2014).
See the website for further details.
Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2016
In this special issue, we invite authors to critically engage with the arts and design thinking as methods for promoting creativity and social innovation. We’d like contributors to consider how education can be more explicitly connected to the growth of the Creative Economy (CE), defined as “the interface between creativity, culture, economics and technology as expressed in the ability to create and circulate intellectual capital, with the potential to generate income, jobs and export earnings while. . .promoting social inclusion, cultural diversity and human development” (United Nations, 2008, p. 333). Creative industries may include: visual arts, design, film, photography, computer games, electronic/book publishing, music, dance, etc. (Howkins, 2001; Government of Ontario, 2014; Florida & Spencer, 2015). The driver of economic innovation is creativity and according to innovation rankings, Canada has demonstrated weak innovation capacity for decades (The Conference Board of Canada, 2015). Given the trajectory of the CE in the next decade, we believe it is timely to address the complex constraints within education that separate pedagogical innovation from social innovation. Society needs creative thinkers who have been educated to address socio-cultural-political issues and who are capable of engaging in complex interpersonal relationships within diverse groups of people (Hayes, Sameshima, & Watson, 2014).
See the website for further details.
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